St Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) experienced visions of Christ in her childhood and entered the Benedictine convent Disibodenberg at an early age. She was very versatile and worked as an artist, scientist, mystic, healer and poet. Around the year 1150, she had the Rupertsberg monastery built near Bingen at the mouth of the Nahe river into the Rhine and colonised it with 18 nuns. Today's single vineyard sites Abtei Rupertsberg, Hildegardisbrünnchen and Klosterberg in the Bingen-Bingersbrück district of the Nahe wine-growing region are a reminder of this. Rupertsberg Abbey was destroyed in 1632 during the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648).
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